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Show 1077 status of the development of North Canada -- the Nearing North. " I went to Edmunton, and from there to the Peace river, up that river the regular Hudson Bay steamer; then I endeavored to pass through pass river canyon, which Mackenzie had endeavored to boat in 1793 with a birch bark cance. There had been no record of the point he reached in the canyon. " I took a birch bark cance with an out- board motor, and after losing the beat and the motor and getting very wet and scratched up, I finally located, I thought, the point which Mackenzie had to leave Rocky Mountain canyon and portage. " That was my experience on the Peace river. " Returning to Edmonton by rail I went on to a waterways boats there; I took a steamer down the Athabason and the Slave and the Mackenzie to tidewater, following Mackenzie's route. " I returned by steamer and by rail to Edmunton. " Then I voyaged down the Saskatchewan river, again on the route of the old explorers, in a folding canvas boat with an out- motor. This carried me to the pas, from whence I portaged to the Nelson river, which I boated down to Hudson Bay." R. 2558. " In nearly every instance I operated the boats, hance -- where it was not steamer travel I did so, very frequently alone, but where necessary with the aid of one or more boatmen, or, as in one of my Colorado river trips, under |